Jennifer Beals
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Jupiter Award
Jupiter Awards 1 won
- — Jupiter Awards Won
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress 1 nominated
- 1986 Worst Actress Nominated The Bride
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Jennifer Beals (born December 19, 1963) is an American actress and a former teen model. She is known for her roles as Alexandra "Alex" Owens in the 1983 film Flashdance, and as Bette Porter on the Showtime drama series The L Word. She earned an NAACP Image Award and a Golden Globe Award nomination for the former. She has appeared in more than 50 films.
Beals was born on the South Side of Chicago, the daughter of Jeanne (née Anderson), an elementary school teacher, and Alfred Beals, who owned grocery stores. She is multiracial; her father was African American, and her mother is Irish American. She has two brothers, Bobby and Gregory.Her father died when Beals was nine years old, and her mother married Edward Cohen in 1981. Beals has said her biracial heritage had some effect on her, as she "always lived sort of on the outside", with an idea "of being the other in society". She got her first job at age 13 at an ice cream store, using her height at the time (she is now nearly 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)), to convince her boss she was 16.
Beals was inspired to become an actress by two events: doing a high school production of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing Balm in Gilead with Joan Allen while volunteer-ushering at the Steppenwolf Theatre.
Beals graduated from the progressive Francis W. Parker School. She also was chosen to attend the elite Goodman Theatre Young People's Drama Workshop. Beals attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in American literature in 1987; she deferred a term so she could film Flashdance. While at Yale, Beals was a resident of Morse College.
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Filmography
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Acting
55 credits
Law & Order
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Frasier
Castle
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
Lie to Me
Law & Order: Organized Crime
The L Word
The Outer Limits
Taken
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Book of Boba Fett
Motive
After
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Night Shift
The Hunger
The Book of Eli
Before I Fall
The L Word: Generation Q
Swamp Thing
Where Are They Now?
Runaway Jury
Flashdance
Four Rooms
Seitenblicke
The Grudge 2
The Chicago Code
Vampire's Kiss
Luckiest Girl Alive
My Bodyguard
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Prophecy II
The Bride
Catch That Kid
Manhattan Night
Caro diario
Nothing Sacred
The Last Days of Disco
Proof
A Wife's Nightmare
2000 Malibu Road
The Thief and the Cobbler
Indecency
The Anniversary Party
Troubled Waters
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
That's Dancing!
Queen to Play
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